We've said goodbye to several Glee Project contestants now, and this weekend it was the turn of the (very aptly named) McKynleigh Abraham to head home. Even her performance of 'Last Name' wasn't enough to convince Ryan Murphy to keep her in the competition, so she had to return to Kentucky.

McKynleigh recently chatted to reporters, so read on to find out what she had to say about being eliminated, giving rapping a go, and Alex being "arrogant"...

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You said on your walk to the call-back list that you'd struggled with the same thing throughout the competition - what was that?
"In my mind, my struggle through the whole season was, I guess, the connection to the camera. Because that's what the mentors kept telling me I was having problems with and it seemed like I hadn't really gotten better at connecting with the camera, so it seemed like that was what I'd been struggling with the most."

How did you feel after your last chance performance - did you think you'd saved yourself?
"I honestly didn't feel like I had saved myself because I was in the bottom three with Alex and Matheus and, I mean, they hadn't been having any problems pretty much the whole time they were there. They were winning homework assignments and getting called first and all that so I felt like out of the two of them I was lagging behind the most. I knew that even if I did do a really good job on my last chance performance, I felt like they weren't just going to take into account my performance, they were going to take into account the whole time that I'd been there in comparison to the other people that were in the bottom three. So I was in the mindset of, 'I'm going to get out there and do my best and if it doesn't save me at least I went out with a bang, and if it does save me that's awesome'. I was just kind of accepting whatever came."

"I would probably... I don't know. It was a difficult note that I was continuously given that I wasn't connecting to the camera, because I've been doing stage performance for, like, 16 years and I've never done anything on camera before. So I guess I would try harder to understand what they wanted from me instead of just taking it as an automatic defeat, which is unfortunately what I did. I took it as, 'Well, there's no way that I can fix what you want me to fix in a week'. I think if I could go back I would definitely strip down everything that could be the problem and try to figure out what it is and try to fix what they wanted me to."

What was your favourite moment from the competition?
"Honestly, my favourite moment on the show was probably living with all the contestants. I was home-schooled and I have a sister but I'm seven years apart from her, so I missed that sense of living with people and getting that social level that I didn't get when I was in high school. So it was kind of like the high school I never had and the siblings that I never had that were around my age. I thought that was really fun. We all became really close and we all became really good friends and even though it was a competition we were all supporting each other along the way. We were all one big family. We'd have conflicts and then we'd get over them and then we'd have fun and then we'd have more conflict. But, I mean, we were a family and we all loved each other no matter what."

Who did you get along with the best on the show?
"I got along the best with Samuel. We were really, really good friends and we Skype now all the time and text each other and we're still in contact. Sam was definitely one of my best friends on the show."

If you could have performed any song for the judges, what would it have been?

"Well, it's funny actually. It would be between one of two songs and one of the songs that I would have picked is actually the song I got to sing. 'Last Name' is one of my favourite songs, it's a song that I compete with and have competed with before. It's definitely a song I get to show my personality with, I get to be sassy with, and it's a fun song to perform. So I was actually really, really happy with that because that's a song I would have chosen. My second song that I probably would have chosen is 'Fancy' by Reba Macintyre. I really enjoy that song because it requires you to really get into the song and portray a character, the type of person that the song is about. I really enjoy performing that song too, but I was pretty happy with 'Last Name' because that actually would have been one I'd have chosen."

Did anything surprise you when you watched the show back?
"I was surprised by two things that happened on the show. I was surprised by Alex and him saying that he had basically thrown the homework challenge. I had heard about how that happened, some of the contestants had mentioned it and they were talking about it, and I wasn't there so I didn't really know exactly what happened. Seeing it on TV and seeing the way it happened was kind of like, 'Woah, so that's how it happened'. And that surprised me because I always knew that Alex was, you know, kind of the diva, but I didn't think that he was that arrogant. I just thought he was a stereotypical diva. That surprised me. And also Sam, his little thing where he took Hannah's word 'skidoosh' during the rap. That kind of surprised me too, because I thought that he had given Hannah credit for coming up with what it was that he said but he didn't, he definitely kind of accepted it as his own, so that surprised me too. But other than that we were all pretty open with each other and everything went along the way that I thought it would."

What was it like rapping, when you say you're more of a country girl?
"Well, I was making jokes. I was thinking, 'Well, I guess I'll have to get in touch with my dad's side of the family, I'll have to kind of tap into my inner gangsta!' It was definitely difficult, definitely weird, because that's so not me. But I guess I just kind of did my best. I felt like an idiot the entire time I was doing it but I tried my best."

"Well I have a love for performing on stage and doing musical theatre and stuff like that - I've been doing musical theatre for 13 years. I really have a love for the live stage and live theatre thing. I'm going to school next month, I'm transferring to Northern Kentucky University, the fine arts program for performing arts, and for the next three years just working on my performing and trying to get what I need to get my career started and get knowing the technicalities of everything and what I want to go into. I'm really focused on school right now but I'm not going to stop my singing career and performing. I want to get out there. This isn't the end of the road for me, I'm sure - I won't let it be! So I'm definitely going to pursue my career. Right now I'm just focused on school, but I don't know what the future's going to bring."